Links to useful How To / DIY Hypertufa resources

Month: October 2014

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Having posted many links to DIY tutorials for making various hypertufa garden art objects like pots, planters, troughs etc., I’m happy to share a tutorial for making a new kind of hypertufa object – stepping stones.

Better still, this – rather rare kind of – DIY article posted by Jess from Hillsboro, OR, at ThriftyFun.com, also happens to be one of the most multi-media-information-rich links I’ve found / posted so far.

Called ‘Making Hypertufa Stepping Stones‘, this tutorial has it all – flowing text, many pictures, a video, step-by-step instruction including recipe and mixing method and so on. Just click the link below and let Jess guide you to making some great looking steeping stones for your garden with hypertufa and clamshells:

Dorothy, a blogger and a self-confessed obsessive composter from California has hacked a brilliant method to make stunning head planters with hypertufa. And she did not stop just at making this for herself but went on to share her great method, by way of a detailed blog post, with recipe and all, accompanied by plenty of pictures.

Speaking for myself, I find Dorothy’s DIY hypertufa head planter idea and tutorial not only brilliant and useful but also a rare one. You can check it out at the link below:

While working on a new (non-hypertufa) post, I accidentally hit the Stats link (that I don’t normally check much) and I found a few (pleasant) surprises there, that I’d like to share with you:

As I type this, my little DIY Hypertufa blog, that I started less than a month ago, has acquired 27 followers!!! I don’t know about you but for me, that is definitely a cause for celebration!

As I mentioned in my introductory post (here), I created this blog as a labor of my love for garden art in general and hypertufa in particular and never expected that people would actually find it useful enough to follow it and post comments etc. Another piece of statistical information that I still find hard to believe is that my blog has received 644 page views so far!!! Amazing.

It’d be an understatement to say that I’m greatly encouraged by all this – and thank you, you and you… those who are visiting, following, sharing and posting comments. I’ll keep posting more and more DIY hypertufa and general garden art related links here as long as you all keep finding it useful; that’s my promise.

That’s all from me on this post… over to you now. Please share your views by commenting below, if you have a minute to spare. Thanks.

Here is one more DIY garden art link under the non-hypertufa category. Posted at a blog called StudentBudgetLiving.com, this DIY article describes how to make beautiful looking painted terracotta pots in nice detail, with plenty of pictures:

Here is one more nice and useful tutorial to help you make a DIY hypertufa planter. Published by Susan Romanoff at the Gardener’s Supply Company, this article will take you through the steps of making a hypertufa planter with ease.